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Recent Examples of unabsorbed
This can reduce the amount of the nutrient that enters your bloodstream, with the unabsorbed portion passing through your digestive system.
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Lauren Manaker,
SELF,
23 Mar. 2026
Bacterial Imbalances Iron supplements, especially unabsorbed iron, can change the balance of bacteria in your gut.
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Emmanuella Ogbonna,
Health,
31 Oct. 2025
Orlistat can cause digestive problems because unabsorbed fat passes into and lingers in the colon.
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Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
The blood-red remnant seen on cloth is visible due to the leftover light wavelengths that remain unabsorbed by the condiment’s chemical composition.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
Lauren Manaker,
SELF,
23 Mar. 2026
Bacterial Imbalances Iron supplements, especially unabsorbed iron, can change the balance of bacteria in your gut.
—
Emmanuella Ogbonna,
Health,
31 Oct. 2025
Orlistat can cause digestive problems because unabsorbed fat passes into and lingers in the colon.
—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
The blood-red remnant seen on cloth is visible due to the leftover light wavelengths that remain unabsorbed by the condiment’s chemical composition.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabsorbed
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The advisory infrastructure to prevent this outcome is largely absent at the small business level.
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Twenty-four assemblymembers and 15 senators did not cast a vote, though some of those lawmakers were absent from the vote.
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As materials pass through hubs like Singapore, their origins often become increasingly abstracted.
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Affecting meaningful change — or suffering from the lack of it — has become so abstracted for the rich and powerful that everything feels like entertainment to them.
Adjective
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Feeling scattered and unfocused?
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Sometimes that critique is known as a fishing expedition, an unfocused and far-reaching hunt for any possible wrongdoing even if completely unrelated to the case.
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On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt Lake City neighborhood, a blue heeler who’s been seen limping and has evaded capture.
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Creators regularly enter into agreements without legal training, standard contract templates, or institutional backing, which could lead to potential thousands of dollars in lost profit.
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But for another two and a half years, it’s stuck with a boss who often seems oblivious to customer concerns.
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The Street loves the latter model, the public loves the former, and is oblivious to the dichotomy.
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That investigation led to a 2023 recall requiring software changes meant to better detect inattentive drivers and warn them.
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This is not to say Costco shoppers are inattentive.
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Some big rubber balls had been tossed in to keep them distracted.
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The problem, Larson said, is that Congress was highly distracted at the time with passing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
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Yet in an era increasingly defined by digital abstraction and impermanence, fashion designers are newly preoccupied with the tangible and historic.
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Unfortunately, the actor was a little preoccupied with another franchise.
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“Unabsorbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unabsorbed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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